Israeli attack: Hebron – 15:45, Israeli forces, manning a checkpoint at the entrance to the al-Urub refugee camp, opened fire on a vehicle that managed to escape. Occupation troops then closed all access to the camp.

Israeli Army tear gas assault: Ramallah – 10:10, Israeli forces positioned near the entrance to al-Nabi Saleh village fired tear gas grenades at residents and set up a checkpoint at the entrance, closing off the village from the outside world.

Israeli Army tear gas assault – abduction: Tulkarem – 14:50, the Israeli Army fired tear gas grenades at people near the Ashour factory and abducted a 15-year-old boy, Mohammad Nasrallah.

Israeli Army tear gas assault – baby and mother casualties: Hebron – 11:50, a three-month-old baby, Samir Al-Alami, and his mother were overcome by Israeli Army tear gas during an assault by Occupation forces on people at the entrance to Beit Ummar.

Non-violent resistance: Jerusalem – the Israeli Army took two people prisoner while suppressing a protest demonstration near the Old City Bab al-Amoud Gate.

Non-violent resistance: Ramallah – 10:50, Israeli troops injured six protesters during an assault on a demonstration in front of the Ofer Prison in Beitunya. Several other people were overcome by Israeli tear gas.

False myth of Jews’ eternal longing for land of Israel. Shlomo Sand is a history professor at Tel Aviv University. His charismatic, readable style was evident in his previous book The Invention of the Jewish People, the English edition of which kicked up quite a controversy in 2009. The title alone seemed designed to shock. Sand’s new book, The Invention of the Land of Israel, is essentially a direct sequel, focusing on the nature of an idea central to Zionism: the “Land of Israel”. . . http://jfjfp.com/wp-content/plugins/mailpress/mp-includes/action.php?tg=l&mm=41805&co=h&us=8324342883f063b0e1c24c2e819dd94a

The Centre for Constitutional Rights, in collaboration with the NationalLawyers Guild and others, is organising the Palestine Solidarity Legal Support initiative in order to protect and advance the constitutional rights of Palestinian rights activists across the US. http://palestinelegalsupport.org/

A new genetic study of the European (Ashkenazi) Jews and Middle Eastern andEuropean populations shows again that the Zionist idea of Jewish dispersaland return to Palestine is false. Most of the genetic affiliation ofEuropean Jews falls squarely in clusters of other Europeans with verylimited Middle Eastern input. By contrast Iranian, Iraqi and even Azerbaijani Jews are Middle Eastern (by and large). See figures in the original paper titled “The Missing Link of Jewish European Ancestry: Contrasting the Rhineland and the Khazarian Hypotheses” by John Hopkins scientist Eran Israeli-Elhaik.http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1208/1208.1092.pdf

Rich Wiles is a photographic artist who has been living and working in Palestine for some years. His photographic work has been shown around Europe, the US, Australia and in Palestine itself. Since 2006 he has been writing from Occupied Palestine under the title Behind the Wall. Much of this work is based in and around the refugee camps in Palestine, highlighting daily life and memories of refugees who still live in forced exile for over 60 years since Al Nakba (The Catastrophe). www.richwiles.com

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Restrictions of movement

In addition to the particular acts of violence and repression reported in this daily newsletter, every area of Israeli Occupied Palestinian territory experiences varied and arbitrary restrictions of movement imposed by the Israeli Army. These are too numerous and detailed to be included in our daily reports but nevertheless they should be borne in mind. Lack of freedom of movement, in addition to whatever particular acts of cruelty and spite are reported here, is the frustrating and humiliating background to daily life for the Occupied Palestinian people. The Israeli Occupation’s military restrictions on Palestinian freedom include:

Checkpoints at the entrances to towns and villages to prevent people entering or leaving. Interference with people attempting to move around towns and villages.

Cement blocks and barbed wire and/or earth mounds on roads.

Farmers prohibited from going onto their land to work it.

Road closures to isolate areas in which the Israeli Army considers the presence of Palestinians to be ‘illegal’.

Gaza's International Airport is permanently closed and Palestinians needing to enter or leave Palestine can do so only with Israeli permission.

Interference with access to mosques and freedom of worship.

Wall Gates. The gates in Israel’s annexation Wall, which restrict Palestinian access to their land.

Curfews. Anyone appearing in the street or at a window is liable to be shot dead.

Israeli Army violence. The Israeli Occupation Army enforces many of the above restrictions with the threat, or actual use, of military action as well as personal physical assault. Thus, Palestinians are faced with an all-pervasive and constant state of Israeli violence towards them.

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Declaration

We believe that a just peace in Palestine/Israel depends upon the return of Palestinian refugees to their homeland and the dismantling of the Zionist structure of the state of Israel, recognising that the further partitioning of Palestine in order to create the so-called two-state solution would lead only to further injustice and suffering.

We advocate the primacy of international law, the acceptance of which by the Israeli regime must be the basis for the ending of Israeli military occupation and all forms of ethnic discrimination.

We work to raise awareness of the international community's responsibility for upholding the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the urgent need for the state of Israel to be called to account for its gross abuses of Palestinian human rights.

We call for the establishment of a unitary, secular and democratic state in Palestine/Israel, with full and equal citizenship rights for Palestinians, Israeli Jews and all other ethnic communities.

The Palestine Human Rights Campaign Aotearoa/New Zealand (PHRC) works to raise public awareness of the Palestinian people's struggle to resist Israeli military occupation and Israel's blockade of the Gaza Strip. PHRC seeks to bring pressure on the New Zealand Government to join the majority of the international community in requiring Israel to: